Hey guys,

Like the title says I am looking for magazine/review quotes for FDs when they first came out. I know there are tons of great quotes from magazines like Car and Driver, Road and Track, Sport Compact Car, etc., stating how awesome the FD truly is.

List the quote and the credible source that it came from.

I'll start the first quote from Sport Compact Car of 2001 for the Ultimate Handling Shootout:

"Driven with seriousness, however, the Rx-7 managed 1.035g, the highest reading of the contest, and the highest we have ever recorded without R-compound tires."

Ryan

 

interesting...

"Loving an RX-7 required the same oath of fealty that a Lotus Esprit demanded of its owner: The car owned the driver, and the driver was bent to its will. "

http://www.motivemag.com/pub/feature...azda_RX7.shtml

 

Evo Magazine (UK):
(+) Achingly beautiful, rare and great to drive (-) Thirsty
They give it 4/5 stars.

 

http://www.fd3s.net/magazine_articles/index.html

 

Scotty thats incredibly lazy. Come on man read an article and post a quote. Yes alot of us know about that magazine archieve.

 

Yep, I was in a lazy mood when I posted it... also assumed the original poster might like to read a few more magazine articles rather than just hear our favorite excerpts.

"The new RX-7 is a that rarity among new cars, a design that is smaller, lighter, stronger, and markedly faster than the model it follows in production. It looks like a serious sports car, and there is no denying its abilities."
Automobile Magazine, January 1993 (Design of the Year article)


I really liked some of the Mazda advertisements, too, 'lightning in a world of thunder' and the one about the only brake pedal that makes a car faster. There was one with a few pages of pretty in-depth tech info.

 

Here is the source of the OPs quote...

http://sportcompactcar.automotive.co...mes/index.html

 

Were any of you guys actually born/able to read when this car was introduced?

 

^ I was 4

 

There are alot of older people here. I was 13 in 93. I could barely read back then.

 

thought this was pretty cool, for those who don't know 100kph is roughly 62mph.

 

I'd say that at 20 years old I could read

 

I was 1, and didnt even know what an RX7 was till I was 9.

 

I was probably older then than most of you are now...

 

"Loving an RX-7 required the same oath of fealty that a Lotus Esprit demanded of its owner: The car owned the driver, and the driver was bent to its will. "

it takes years of Rx-7 ownership for you to own the car rather than the car owning you.

 

I was 9 years old, but 10 when mine rolled off the assembly line. Maybe I'm being an amature here, but in the sports compact car article it says the car is a 2616cc, two rotor. Wouldn't that be a four rotor at that size?

 

yes that would be the displacement of a 4rotor if it was 2 13B's bolted together.

 

“The RX-7 didn't just win the numbers game, it humiliated the field” - Motor Trend 2/93

 

"The RX-7 made us crazy. Crazy in love; crazy mad. This is one passionate vehicle." Automobile (October 1993).

Pretty much sums up my ownership experience and I wouldn't have it anyother way.

 

"The RX-7's performance was like having an MIT grad student, as a prank, enroll in Calculus I at a junior college. For instance, in lateral acceleration, its advantage over second place equalled second place's advantage over 15th place."

Motor Trend 9/92

I'd love to find these articles somewhere, are they online anywhere?

 

Very nice guys, keep them coming!!

 

Can you or anyone post/find a link to this article? Thanks!

 

I love the quotes! I was only 7 when the FD hit the streets...I didn't know what one was till I saw F&F...yea I know.

 

Not from a magazine, but it was memorable.

(Ferrari driver in the paddocks at Laguna Seca)
Hey! That's a 3rd gen RX-7, right?

(me)
uh huh

(Him)
We have a saying that you guys would make great Ferrari owners because you're used to constantly paying way to much for hard-to-find parts.

(me)
wanna trade?

 

Now THAT'S funny